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Challenges, Opportunities and New Directions at NSF

Challenges, Opportunities and New Directions at NSF. John B. Hunt Senior Advisor Office of the Director. Federal Obligations for Basic Research at Academic Institutions, FY 2002. Total Federal Distribution ($000). NSF Share of Total Federal. Computer sciences Mathematics Social sciences

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Challenges, Opportunities and New Directions at NSF

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  1. Challenges, Opportunities and New Directions at NSF John B. Hunt Senior Advisor Office of the Director

  2. Federal Obligations for Basic Research at Academic Institutions, FY 2002 Total Federal Distribution ($000) NSF Share of Total Federal Computer sciences Mathematics Social sciences Environmental sciences Engineering Other Sciences Physical sciences Biological sciences (non-medical) Psychology Medical sciences

  3. NSF FY 2005 Budget Request Source: NSF/E. Myers

  4. NSF Strategic Goals • People - A diverse, internationally competitive and globally engaged workforce of scientists, engineers and well-prepared citizens. • Ideas- Discovery across the frontier of science and engineering, connected to learning, innovation, and service to society. • Tools - Broadly accessible, state-of-the-art S&E facilities, tools, and other infrastructure that enable discovery, learning and innovation. • Organizational Excellence – An agile, innovative organization that fulfills its mission through leadership in state-of-the-art business practices. Source: NSF/E. Myers

  5. NSF FY 2005 Budget Request Priority Areas Priority Areas FY 2005 Request Percent Change FY 2004 Estimate Millions of dollars Totals may not add due to rounding. Source: NSF/E. Myers

  6. FY 2003 NSF Directorate Success Rates(Research Grants) *Does not include SBIR/STTR

  7. Centers Total Increase Total Increase • Science and Technology Centers $ 72 $30 • Science of Learning Centers $ 20 ---- • Other Centers $365 $14 Source: NSF/E. Myers

  8. Science of Learning Centers... will extend the frontiers of knowledge on learning and create the intellectual, organizational, and physical infrastructure needed for the long-term advancement of learning research. Centers will be built around a unifying research focus and will incorporate a diverse, multidisciplinary environment involving appropriate partnerships with academia, industry, all levels of education, and other public and private entities.

  9. The goals of the SLC programare: • to advance the frontiers of all the sciences of learning through integrated research • to connect this research to specific scientific, technological, educational, and workforce challenges • to enable research communities that can capitalize on new opportunities and discoveries and respond to new challenges

  10. Biocomplexity in the Environment • Microbial genome sequencing • Ecology of infectious diseases • Dynamics of coupled natural and human systems • Coupled biogeochemical cycles • Genome-Enabled environmental sciences and engineering • Instrumentation development or environmental activities • Materials use: science, engineering and society Biocomplexity in the Environment Source: NSF/E. Myers

  11. Human and Social Dynamics • Agents of change • Dynamics of human behavior • Decision making under uncertainty • Spatial social science • Modeling human and social dynamics • Instrumentation and data resource development0 Human and Social Dynamics Source: NSF/E. Myers

  12. Mathematical Sciences • Fundamental mathematical & statistical sciences • Advancing interdisciplinary science and engineering • Mathematical and statistical challenges posed by large data sets • Managing & modeling uncertainty • Modeling complex nonlinear systems • Advancing mathematical sciences education Mathematical Sciences Source: NSF/E. Myers

  13. MODELING OF SUBSURFACE AND SURFACE FLOWS (Wheeler, UT/Austin) • Development of new scalable parallel algorithms • Implementation and testing of codes for simulation of cases driven by energy and environmental applications • Example application: Analysis of contamination and remediation scenarios in subsurface and surface waters, such as aquifers and coastal waters; • Collaborators: UT mathematicians and geoscientists, Texas Water Development Board, Chevron Petroleum, researchers in the Netherlands, Brazil and Australia.

  14. Nanotechnology • Working at the atomic, molecular and supramolecular levels (1 to 100nm) in order to create materials, devices and systems with fundamentally new properties and functions(http://nano.gov) • novel phenomena, properties and functions at the nanoscale • the ability to manipulate matter at the nanoscale in order to change those properties and functions

  15. Nanoscale and Science and Engineering • Fundamental research & education • Grand challenges • Centers & Networks of Excellence • Infrastructure • Societal & educational implications Nanoscale & Science & Engineering Source: NSF/E. Myers

  16. Changing Nano R&D focus in 2004 • Growing areas, from discovery to technological innovation • Materials, including bulk, coating, dispersed systems • Chemicals, including catalysts • Pharmaceuticals • Electronics • Emerging areas in FY 2004 • Energy conversion and storage • Nanomedicine • Agriculture and food systems • Molecular architectures • Realistic multiphenomena/multiscale simulations • Environmental implications • Converging technologies from the nanoscale MC. Roco, 3/01/03

  17. Workforce for the 21st Century • Integrated science and engineering education investment • K-16 faculty preparation & development • Focus on broadening participation • Research on effective learning paths Workforce for the 21st Century Source: NSF/E. Myers

  18. People Total Increase • Number of fellows increases from 5,000 to 5,500 • Stipends maintained at $30,000 annually • Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF) • Graduate Teaching Fellowships in K-12 Education (GK-12) • Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeships (IGERT) People 19% Source: NSF/E. Myers

  19. Graduate Fellows Increase in Number of Fellows 130% Increase in Number of Fellows 130% 6,000 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Source: NSF/E. Myers

  20. Graduate Fellows 66% Increase in Stipend Levels (1999-2004 66% Increase in Stipend Levels (1999-2004) 30,000 25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 5,000 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Source: NSF/E. Myers

  21. EHR Budget Comparison: FY 2004 to FY 2005 [dollars in millions]

  22. MPS Budget Request$$ in Millions

  23. MPS FY 2005 Highlights • Physics of the Universe ($12M) • Physical & chemical bases of life processes ($2M) • Cyberinfrastructure & Cyberscience ($32M) • NSF Priority Areas: • Nanoscale Science & Engineering ($132.14 M), • Mathematical Sciences ($70.19 M), • Workforce for the 21st Century ($1.03 M), and • Human & Social Dynamics ($0.50 M)

  24. Engineering Opportunities • Nanotechnology • Bioengineering • Cyberinfrastructure • Sensors • Manufacturing • Engineering Workforce

  25. BIO Budget Requestby Division Note: Totals may not add due to rounding

  26. BIO Request Highlights FY 2005 • National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) • Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) • Integrative Graduate Education & Research Training (IGERT) • ITR transition to the core • Cyberinfrastructure

  27. FY 2005 Budget Highlights CISE • President’s Budget Request - $618M • 2.2 % increase over FY 2004 • Four new CISE Division sub-activities • Computing and Communication • Foundations • Computer and Network Systems • Information and Intelligent Systems • Shared Cyberinfrastructure • CISE cross-cutting ITR sub-activity

  28. Cross-cutting CISE Budget Emphases (FY 2005) • Cyber Trust • Research and education activities aimed at improving • national cyber security • Science of Design • Research and education projects to enable the • development, evolution and understanding of IT • systems of large scale, scope and complexity. • Information Integration • Research and education projects focused on the • development of domain-specific and general-purpose • tools for integrating information from disparate sources. • Education and Workforce • Cyberinfrastructure education, outreach and training • Activities designed to prepare the IT professionals of • the future

  29. Geosciences Themes for FY05 and beyond • People • Enhancing diversity • Providing new tools to assist educators • Ideas • Earth cycles • Natural hazards • Biogeosciences • Tools • New tools for geoscience exploration • Cyberinfrastructure

  30. Geosciences Ideas : Challenges for the future • Earth system problems that cross physical and discipline boundaries: • Carbon cycle, water cycle • The role of biota in geoscience processes • Natural hazards: • Non-linear processes challenge our ability to develop a predictive capability • Cyberinfrastructure to advance geoscience • The observations revolution

  31. GEO: People for FY05 and Beyond Providing new tools to assist educators • Geoscience Education • Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) • Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence (COSEE) Enhancing diversity • Opportunities to Enhance Diversity in the Geosciences • Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS)

  32. Resources and Collaborations Are Enabled by Cyberinfrastructure • Vision is encapsulated in “the Atkins report.” • Calls for a national, reliable and dynamic, interoperable and integrated system of hardware, software, and data resources and services. • This new infrastructure would open the door to new types of scientific/engineering research and education.

  33. ENG Working Definition for Cyberinfrastructure Cyberinfrastructure is a national network of resources that: • provides broad and easy access to shared repositories for data, models, and tools. • includes connectivity with shared facilities for experimentation and computation. • enables acquisition, analysis, visualization and information extraction from multimedia data resources and libraries. • supports real-time data flows and distributed collaboration. • ensures that multi-scale, multidisciplinary simulation–based science and engineering communities can form and grow.

  34. NEES Shared Use Resources Remote Users (Researchers, Students, Practitioners) Instrumented Structures and Sites Simulation Tools Archive NEESgrid High-Performance Network(s) Laboratory Equipment Mobile Field Equipment Curated Data Repository National (ANSS, IRIS, EarthScope,…) and Global Connections (FY 2005 – FY 2014) Access to Leading Edge Computation Remote Users (K-12 Faculty and Students, General Public) Laboratory Equipment

  35. Major Research Instrumentation (MRI ) Program Purpose • The MRI program is designed to increase access to scientific and engineering equipment for research and research training in U.S. academic institutions. • The MRI program seeks to improve the quality and expand the scope of research and research training in science and engineering, and to foster the integration of research and education by providing instrumentation for research-intensive learning environments. • The MRI program encourages the development and acquisition of research instrumentation for shared use across academic departments, among research institutions, and in concert with private sector partners.

  36. MRI OVERVIEW • Instrumentation Acquisition or Development • Two proposals for acquisition or development; a third for development. An institution may be part of a consortium • Award size--$100,000 to $2 Million • (exceptions for non-Ph.D. granting institutions and for mathematical and social, behavioral and economic sciences) • Cost sharing--30% required • (exceptions for development proposals and for non Ph.D. granting institutions)

  37. CAREER • Purpose • Develop faculty who are both highly productive researchers and dedicated, effective educators through integrated career planning. • Proposal Guidelines • Submitted to relevant program • Includes both research and education plan • Review process varies by Directorate, and may be by mail, panel, or combination • Minimum Award: $400K over 5 years

  38. CAREER Development Plan Should include: • The objectives and significance of the proposed integrated research and education activities; • The relation of the research to the current state of knowledge in the field and of the education activities to the current state of knowledge on effective teaching and learning in one’s field of study; • An outline of the plan of work, describing the methods and procedures to be used, including evaluation of the education activities; • The relation of the plan to the PI’s career goals and job responsibilities and the goals of his/her institution; and • A summary of prior research and education accomplishments

  39. ADVANCE • Goal • Increase the representation and advancement of women in academic S&E careers, thereby contributing to the development of a more diverse S&E workforce • Types of awards • Institutional Transformation: Improve institutional climate • Leadership: Recognize contributions by individuals and institutions, and enable further progress • Fellows:Enable promising individuals to establish or re-establish full-time independent academic careers

  40. Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry • Goals: • Catalyze industry-university partnerships • Encourage innovative application of academe’s intellectual capabilities • Bring industry’s perspective and integrative skills to academe • Promote high quality research and broaden educational experiences in industrial settings

  41. GOALI Guidelines • Proposal Requirements: • Co-PI from Industry • Statement describing the industrial R&D Contribution • Specific Plan for industry/university interaction • Matching Funds: • Required for faculty internships and postdoctoral visits • Eligibility Restrictions: • U.S. institutions of higher education that confer degrees in research areas normally supported by NSF may submit proposals on behalf of faculty members with full-time appointments • Only U.S. citizens or permanent residents eligible for fellowships

  42. EXAMPLE CHE GOALIAWARDS • Industry – University Collaborative Projects Examples from CHE: • San Jose State – IBM Almaden SJS Students and faculty collaborate with IBM scientists. • Hamline C. – 3M A curriculum initiative to train students in the softer skills, business culture; faculty research with 3M scientists.

  43. Research in Undergraduate Institutions(RUI) (NSF-00-144) Goals: Support high quality research with active involvement of undergraduates Strengthen the research environment in undergraduate institutions Promote integration of research and education in undergraduate institutions Eligibility: 20 or fewer Science and Engineering Ph.D. in 2 years Proposal Types: Regular research Multi-user instrumentation Research Opportunity Awards

  44. C-RUI • Goal • Support collaborative, multidisciplinary research efforts involving students and faculty at predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs). • Features: • 3 or more faculty; up to 10 students • Possible partnership across institutions • Multidisciplinary • BIO Directorate mostly

  45. Research in Undergraduate Institutions: CHE FY01-03 Awards • RUI research awards 94 awards $12.5M • ROA supplements 19 awards $0.25M • RUI equipment awards(Mostly MRI program, 44% success)

  46. Research Opportunity Awards • Supplements to existing NSF awards. • Provide funding for faculty from predominantly undergraduate institutions to join the project. • May be awarded without external review.

  47. HOW TO ARRANGE AN ROA Excellent instructions for locating an investigator who is doing NSF-supported research in your area of interest are found on the RUI/ROA webpage at: http://www.nsf.gov.crssprgm/rui/start.shtm

  48. Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) - Sites • Goals: • Initiate and conduct undergraduate research-participation projects • Create research environment with strong faculty-student interaction • Recruitment: • Significant percentage of students from outside host institution • Deadline: • September 15 of each year

  49. REU - Supplements • Goal: • attract undergraduates into science by providing an active research experience • Guidelines: • Add one or two students to an active ongoing project • must be U.S. citizen or permanent resident • No indirect costs (administrative allowance of 25% of student stipend) • Awards 6K • Ask Program Officer about due dates

  50. CHE REU AWARDS

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